【情景英语口语100主题】023 post office 邮局

Post office 邮局

【Beginner】step1：初级入门

A: I’d like to send this parcel to Australia.

B: Certainly. Could you put it on the scales, so I can check the weight?

A：Sure. It’s not very heavy.

B: That’s 850 grams. The cost depends on how you would like to send it.

A: I see. What are the options? I suppose airmail is faster and more expensive than surface mail.

B: That’s right. Sending it by airmail will cost twelve dollars and sending it by surface mail will cost eight dollars.

A: How long will it take to get there?

B: Airmail should take four or five days and surface mail should take about two weeks.

A: In that case, I’ll send it by airmail. I’d like to send it as a registered parcel.

B: No problem. That’s one dollar extra.

A: Thanks very much. There’s thirteen dollars.

B: There’s your receipt. Goodbye.

【Intermediate】step2: 中级进阶

A: Post offices offer lots of services nowadays, don’t they? Years ago, you only really used the post office to send mail, save money, and send or collect money.

B: Nowadays, they offer so many services, you hardly know which one to choose. Take mailing for example. Do you send something first class or second class or do you use EMS?

A: I save money in a post office saving account. There used to be just one kind of account, but now there are several. They each have different conditions and interest rates.

B: You can buy things at post office that were never sold there before. You can buy sweets and chocolates, newspapers, birthday and Christmas cards…..

A: Post offices are still the place to go to collect welfare benefits, like unemployment benefit and child support benefit. The queues are very long on the days when people collect those payments.

B: My son likes going to the main post office. They have a philately counter where he can buy stamps for his collection.

A: Do you think that the service at post offices has improved?

B: I think it’s better for some things, like sending and receiving money, but if you need to post something it sometimes takes longer than it used to.

A: I like being able to buy newspapers and magazines at the post office. It means that I don’t need to go to two places.

【Notes】学习笔记

Words.

Post office/ parcel/ letter/ send/ stamps/ airmail/ surface mail/ registered mail

envelop/ counter/ philately/ postmanwoman/ deliver(y)/ letterbox/ queue

parcel [ˈpɑ:sl] n.小包，包裹 vt.(out)分，分配

1. This parcel came in the mail today.这个包裹是今天邮来的。

2. We bought two parcels of our neighbor's farm.我们买了邻居家农场的两片地。

3. The two big nations parceled out the little country between them.这两个大国把那个小国瓜分了。

4. She parceled some food for the boys to carry to their picnic.她将一些食品包好给孩子们带去野餐。

airmail [ˈeəmeil] n.航空邮件,航空邮政

surface mail 平邮

EMS Express Mail Service，邮政特快专递服务

express [ikˈspres] 快递

registered mail 挂号信

letterbox 信箱

receipt [riˈsi:t] n.发票，收据[ pl.]收入，进款；收到

1. We are awaiting the receipt of further information.我们正等待接获进一步的消息。

2. I paid the bill but he neglected to give me a receipt.我付了帐单,但他忘了给我收据。

3. Pay the bill and ask the grocer to receipt it.付帐之后请食品杂货商注明收讫。

saving account 储蓄账户

welfare benefits 福利金(国家津贴有需要的穷人的)

unemployment benefit 失业救济金,失业津贴

Phrases.

Send a parcel/ Seal an envelop/ Weigh a parcel/ Check the weight

Pay postage/ Surface mail/ Registered parcel/ Welfare benefits